Redskins fans will be there in force this summer. Darrell Green and Art Monk deserve to be inducted. After this evening's half-time show, however, don't expect to find Tom Petty in Canton. He has his fans, but the vocals -- or maybe the miking -- did not have a Hall of Fame sound.
From The Washington Post:
They had assumed this day was coming. Green, in his first year of eligibility for the Hall, was a certainty to be elected by a committee of sportswriters -- one from each NFL city and several at-large -- but Monk's case had been a source of consternation around Washington. How was it that the player who once held NFL records with 106 receptions in a season and 164 consecutive games with a catch was not in the Hall?
Voters had long complained he was not what football people call "a deep threat" but rather a "possession receiver" who mostly caught short passes for first downs rather than long touchdowns. But all that was forgotten Saturday.
